The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-03
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toiiers by anAd-
vooate Man.

V0oAte man.
The engines turned out of Delano shops
are among the best on the Lehigh Valley
road
-General Master Workman +. V. Powder
ysays he is confident that the opposition to
the general officers will not predominate
at the Minneapolis Convention.
All the passenger engines on the Le-
hlgh Valley railroad haye been fitted with
one OF the latest improved appliances of
the Westinghouse air brake. the use of
Which is to regulate the appliance of the
brake
Tile Tamaqua manufacturing company
has as many orders as it can comfortably
fill by running day and night The plant
VIII be enlarged at an early day. The sales
OF 'he patent fire plug made by this com
panyare constantly Increasing.
-liealtlful cooperation between the
employerand employee is the only legitimate
way in which matters that concerns both
parties can be properly and amcably adj
lusted. Employees who have "struck for
higher wages have learned this lesson. is
it not so.
Fifteen hundred z. & K. railroad hands
have joined the Knights of Labor within
the past two weeks. II is given out that
nnety-fve per cent. of all employees are
members. The same company still contin-
ues its tests Of color blindness among The
engineers.
The representatives Of all the leading
railroad and mining companies will meet
early next month for the purpose of raising
the price of coal The cost of production
has not been incrcased-but the demand
vii! Increase shortly and the coal baions
want TO be ready for any emergency.
The miners of the Lehigh aud lower
Anthracite region have sent out a letter to
the operators notifying them, that unless
an increase Of 10 per cent i'm their wages is
made by Monday a strike will be the result
in which every miner and laborer in the
region named will participate In consider
alton Of the fact that the ''markot will
stand an increase in the price of coal' the
miners who do the work areiustly entitled to
the benefit of the raise in price. Is 1t not so?
-General Master Workman r. V. Pow
derly says:" Every day brings me a book or
pamphlet on some economic subject with
the request to read and give my opinion.
have a shelf full of such books. I have no
time for the performance of such Il duly.
get manuscript by the mile with a re-
quest TO read and. if deemed o. X. to
print in the most influential Labor paper.
either. Those sending either books, pamph-
lets, or manuscripts in future will never
hear from them again at least while am
General Master Workman.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has surveyed for a new road seventeen
miles long TO run from Laurelluu TO Pitts
ton for the purpose of shortening the route
between those stations. The line now used
between Laurel Run andrittstOn is twenty
FIVE miles long so that the new route will
shorten the distance eight miles. IT is said
that for some time after the new line is
finished il will be used exclusively by
freight and coal trains. 1t is expected that
the contract will he awarded within the
next two weeks and work commenced
about the middle Of September.
-'Poor's railway manual" for 1887 just
issued, shows that during the past year over
1900 miles Of new railway was added to
the already enormous railway mileage of
the country. Not less than $500 miles have
been added since January ! 1886, making
l4,5OO miles in about twenty months. If
this long line of new road absorbed capital
at the moderate rate of S2O, cooper mile the
total investment would reach the sum of
S20O,0OO,OOO The expenditure of this vast
sum has suifiCed to make business brisk,
but ii has also contributed to make money
little scarce and in good demand. In
other words, the capitalists cannot inyest
their money and have it, toe, ,and the nearly
three hundred millions that haye been alb
sorbed by the new railway buildings of the
last twenty months is just so much money
drawn away from the money centres and
distributed to the workers and those who
supplied the materials II is of more use to
the public at large by being thus distribute ed
but II makes the amount avilabe for call
loans in the money centres just that much
less.